It also puts into rather harsh perspective the Court's unsigned, unexplained order in February 2022 that *allowed* Alabama to use its unlawful map for the 2022 midterms (like a similar order with respect to Louisiana).
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) June 8, 2023
Only Justice Kavanaugh changed sides from that 5-4 ruling... https://t.co/7htpxj0gVg
Color me jaundiced, but racism has been the “bridge too far” for the Court since at least the Warren Court. Like fraud in torts, it is so pernicious it undoes everything it touches. But fraud is easier to find, because racism is still very much in the eye of white beholders; who can be very selective in seeing it in the system. The system they are still very much in control of. But “systemic racism” is bunk, right?If you assume that additional majority-minority districts in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, & 1–2 other states would’ve been safe Democratic seats, then today’s #SCOTUS ruling strongly suggests that the Court’s 2022 shadow docket stays wrongly gave Republicans control of the House.
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) June 8, 2023
So this is a victory. But it’s almost a Pyrrhic one. The VRA hasn’t (yet) been totally gutted. But the 15th Amendment is still more honored in the breach than in the keeping. And racism in law is still a matter of when white people say it’s there; or that it’s a problem.
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